Bog Glider

The land-sacrifice tutor was the engine that held Mercenaries together, and this body offers it cheaply: a flier that chains small Mercenaries onto the battlefield at the cost of your own mana base. The mechanic this tribe ran on inverted the Rebels' fetch logic from the prior block. Where Rebels paid mana to climb a curve and search for ever-larger creatures, Mercenaries fetched downward, pulling out permanents at or below their own cost, and paid by feeding lands into the activation. That land sacrifice is the structural brake on what would otherwise be runaway recursion. Every search strips a permanent off your battlefield, so the tribe was built to grind toward a board it could not sustainably refuel: a deliberately self-limiting toolbox rather than a true value loop. The flying body matters more than the 1/1 stat line suggests, since it gives the tutor evasion the ground-bound tribe lacks; but the activation taps it, so a turn spent searching is a turn spent not attacking. Mercenaries never coalesced into a deck anyone feared, and the land-as-fuel cost is much of the reason. The engine asked you to spend down your own mana to assemble a board of one-toughness bodies, a trade that rarely paid for itself. What survives is a clear record of a tribal mechanic priced around an upkeep most decks could not afford to keep making.